Tag: district assembly elections
ABANTU underscores urgent need for women’s full representation in local governance
ABANTU for Development has underscored the urgent need for women’s full representation and participation in local governance, in spite of the dismal outcome for...
Four women win District Assembly elections in UWR
Only Four out of 18 women who contested the December 17 District Level Election (DLE) in the Upper West Region won to represent their...
Men urged to support women in District Assembly elections
Mr Samuel Yeyu Tika, Deputy Savannah Regional Minister has called on Men to support Women to actively participate in the next District Level...
EC satisfied with voting process and turnout so far
The Electoral Commission Tuesday said it is so far generally satisfied with the voter turnout and the voting process in the nationwide District...
Ninty women in the Western Region to contest in the upcoming District Assembly Elections
A total of 90 women have filed their nominations with the Electoral Commission to contest the upcoming Assembly Member Election in the Western...
EC sensitizes women and PWDs on upcoming district assembly elections
The Electoral Commission has held a day's engagement with some women and Persons with Disability (PwD) associations to enhance their participation in the upcoming...
EC opens nominations for District Assembly elections
The Electoral Commission (EC) will from Monday October, 7 open nominations for prospective Candidates who wish to contest for this year’s District Assembly and...
District Assembly Elections: Gomoa Central MP Preaches Gender Balance
A female Law Maker has urged women to avail themselves in the upcoming District Assembly elections to ensure equal representation at the local governance...
ABANTU Speaks On Postponement Of District Assembly Level Elections
ABANTU for Development, a women?s rights and policy advocacy non-governmental organization has expressed its disappointment about the failure to conduct the district level elections...
Aspiring Assemblyman Appeals To EC To Compensate Aspirants
A 39-year-old sound and mobile phone technician who filed his papers to contest as an assembly member for the Awoshie Electoral Area in the...
Cancellation Of Assembly Elections A Momentary Setback – UE Minister
Alhaji Amidu Sulemana, Upper West Regional Minister said on Friday that government was mindful that no vacuum was to be created in the district,...
Re-Organization Of District Assembly Elections Will Drain Nation Coffers
The progressive minded Aspirants of Adobetor, New Lakpanaa, and Adiembra Electoral Areas of the La Dade-Kotopon District are calling on the general public to...
Nabdam DCE campaign for women in upcoming D/A elections
Madam Vivian Anafo, District Chief Executive (DCE) of Nabdam District Assembly has called for more education to sustain the interest of women in the...
Only 4 women in the Bolga local elections race
Only four women filed to contest the March 3 District Assembly elections in the Bolgatanga Municipality in the Upper East Region.
The women include one...
Hairdresser eyes Sakaman assembly member position
49 year-old hairdresser, Ms. Becky Hesse Lartey, is contending three men for the assembly member position in the Sakaman Electoral Area, Greater Accra Region,...
Community to construct a police to curb crime
The Klagon Divisional Council (KDC), has initiated the construction of a Police Station, to help reduce crime wave within the community.
Nii Bortey Klan, Klagon...
Low women representation in governance still a challenge
The Deputy Commissioner of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Georgina Opoku Amankwaah has urged the media to promote the cause of women especially those...
DCEs And Assembly Men Should Be Elected-Nana Addo
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, the NPP 2016 Presidential Candidate, presented his vision for transforming Ghana at an invitation to address a selected audience...
Technician file for D/A elections
A 39-year old sound and mobile phone technician, Kwabena Asiamah, has filed his nomination to contest as an assembly member for the Awoshie Electoral...
Partisan candidate in D/A elections will be disqualified
Mr Ebenezer Aggrey-Fynn, Commissioner in-charge of Brong-Ahafo of the Electoral Commission (EC), on Tuesday emphasised that the district and unit assembly elections are non-partisan.
He...
DCE call for maximum participation in the upcoming D/A elections
Mr Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, Gomoa West District Chief Executive (DCE), has called on the people to fully participate in the forthcoming District Assembly elections and...
NDC rally support for female candidates
Ms Evelyn Korang, Eastern Regional Women Organizer of the National Democratic Congress(NDC), has urged women organizers of the party at the constituency and branche...
EC To Conduct District Assembly Elections In March 2015
The Electoral Commission (EC) has set Tuesday, March 3, 2015 to hold the District Assembly and Unit Committee elections. According to the EC, nominations...
CODEO To Observe Upcoming District Assembly Elections
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), under the auspices of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), will observe the upcoming district assembly...
Enhancing Women?s Political Participation
Mr Sumaila Seidu Saaka, a Journalist, has urged his professional colleagues to work at promoting women to actively participate in politics and other social...
Why Ghana postponed district assembly elections
The Chairman of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwodjo Afari-Gyan, has asked the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament to ensure a timely release of...